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Exploring Japanese Literature

Author : Giles Murray
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1568365411
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Japanese Literature written by Giles Murray and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima and Junichiro Tanizaki are all giants of world literature. It stands to reason that students of Japanese would long to read them in their original language. Exploring Japanese Literature enables them to do just that. Featuring one each of these writers’ most characteristic stories—plus linguistic support in the form of a built-in dictionary—the book picks up where the author’s previous bestselling text, Breaking into Japanese Literature, left off. The poignancy of romance between a wealthy Tokyoite and a provincial geisha in Yasunari Kawabata’s "Snow Country"; the ecstatic frenzy of a couple committing ritual suicide in Mishima’s "Patriotism"; the amoral antics of a playboy aesthete trying to fire up his flagging zest for life in Tanizaki’s "The Secret" — Exploring Japanese Literature is a reader’s entrée into the uniquely rich and exotic world of modern Japanese fiction. On each two-page spread, the original Japanese is printed in large type on the left-hand page, with the corresponding English translation on the right and the dictionary running along the bottoms of both. Everything the student needs to read the stories and understand them is right there. To enrich students’ experience even further, Exploring Japanese Literature also features biographies of the three novelists, mini-prefaces that set the scene for the individual stories, and evocative illustrations. In addition, there is a dedicated website at www.speaking-japanese.com where learners have the chance to put forward their own interpretations of the Japanese and engage in debate with the author, the editor and, of course, other readers of the book. Exploring Japanese Literature is recommended for upper-intermediate and advanced level students.

Breaking Into Japanese Literature

Author : Giles Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568364155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Into Japanese Literature written by Giles Murray and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a graded reader for Japanese literature. There are 7 stories, 4 by Soseki and 3 by Akutagawa, representing 3 different reading levels. In each case the story is presented in Japanese and English with a running dictionary of terms used. An audio version of the stories is available as MP3 files on the Internet.

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368289
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature written by Haruo Shirane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.

Origins of Modern Japanese Literature

Author : Kōjin Karatani
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313236
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Origins of Modern Japanese Literature written by Kōjin Karatani and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karatani Kojin is one of Japan's leading critics. In his work as a theoretician, he has described Modernity as have few others; he has re-evaluated the literature of the entire Meiji period and beyond. As one critic has said, Karatani's thought "has had a profound effect on the way we formulate the questions we ask about modern literature and culture ... [his] argument is compelling, moving even, and in the end the reader comes away with a different understanding not only of modern Japanese literature but of modern Japan itself." Among the many authors discussed are Soseki Natsume, Doppo Kunikida, Katai Tayama, and Shoyo Tsubouchi.

Short Stories in Chinese

Author : John Balcom
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101666862
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Short Stories in Chinese written by John Balcom and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time This new volume of eight short stories offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world’s most spoken language, without having to constantly to refer back to a dictionary. The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers as well as emerging voices. From a story by Li Rui about the honest simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to one by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society, they are infused with both rural dialect and urban slang and feature a wide range of styles and points of view. Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language. Note: For each short story in this eBook edition, the full English translation is followed by its original Chinese text.

Touching the Unreachable

Author : Fusako Innami
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054988
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Touching the Unreachable written by Fusako Innami and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

Studies in Modern Japanese Literature

Author : Edwin McClellan
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Modern Japanese Literature written by Edwin McClellan and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Studies in Modern Japanese Literature, twenty-two students honor their mentor, Edwin McClellan, with essays and translations focusing on literature from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. The authors discussed range from Natsume S seki to Murakami Haruki, and the subjects that are dealt with include the flourishing of literary forms in response to the Ansei earthquake, the impact of Western styles on Japanese literature, and modern poetry. Together with the translations of short stories, fables, and a critical essay, these contributions provide an overview of modern Japanese literary history. Contributors include: Paul Anderer, Carole Cavanaugh, Robert Lyons Danly, Eto Jun, Susanna Fessler, Elaine Gerbert, Ken K. Ito, Kyoko Kurita, Phyllis I. Lyons, Andrew Markus, Minae Mizumura, James R. Morita, Christopher Michael Rich, Jay Rubin, William F. Sibley, Stephen Snyder, Tomi Suzuki, Alan Tansman, Richard Torrance, John Whittier Treat, Dennis Washburn, and Angela Yiu.

The Pleasures of Japanese Literature

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Companions to Asian Studies Series
ISBN 13 : 9780231067379
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Japanese Literature written by Donald Keene and published by Companions to Asian Studies Series. This book was released on 1988 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces Japanese culture, and discusses the aesthetics, poetry, fiction, and theater of Japan

The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature

Author : John Whittier Treat
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226811703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature written by John Whittier Treat and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state’s hand in shaping literature throughout the country’s nineteenth-century industrialization, a half-century of empire and war, its post-1945 reconstruction, and the challenges of the twenty-first century to modern nationhood. Beginning with journalistic accounts of female criminals in the aftermath of the Meiji civil war, Treat moves on to explore how woman novelist Higuchi Ichiyō’s stories engaged with modern liberal economics, sex work, and marriage; credits Natsume Sōseki’s satire I Am a Cat with the triumph of print over orality in the early twentieth century; and links narcissism in the visual arts with that of the Japanese I-novel on the eve of the country’s turn to militarism in the 1930s. From imperialism to Americanization and the new media of television and manga, from boogie-woogie music to Yoshimoto Banana and Murakami Haruki, Treat traces the stories Japanese audiences expected literature to tell and those they did not. The book concludes with a classic of Japanese science fiction a description of present-day crises writers face in a Japan hobbled by a changing economy and unprecedented natural and manmade catastrophes. The Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature reinterprets the “end of literature”—a phrase heard often in Japan—as a clarion call to understand how literary culture worldwide now teeters on a historic precipice, one at which Japan’s writers may have arrived just a moment before the rest of us.

Modern Japanese Literature

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Salem Press
ISBN 13 : 9781682172582
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Modern Japanese Literature written by Frank Jacob and published by Salem Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the developments of Japan's history, its economic and military rise in the early 20th century, and its bitter defeat after WWII. Essays in this volume explore the search for national identity. It covers works written between 1868 and today.

Japanese Literature

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Literature written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring Japanese University English Teachers' Professional Identity

Author : Diane Nagatomo
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847696465
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring Japanese University English Teachers' Professional Identity by : Diane Nagatomo

Download or read book Exploring Japanese University English Teachers' Professional Identity written by Diane Nagatomo and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the professional identities of a highly influential group of English language teachers in Japan: Japanese university English teachers. It focuses on how relatively new teachers develop their professional identities, how gender impacts the professional identities of female professors, and how teaching practices and beliefs reflect personal and professional identity.

Translating Modern Japanese Literature

Author : Richard Donovan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527539873
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Translating Modern Japanese Literature written by Richard Donovan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents and comments on four short works of Japanese literature by prominent writers of the early twentieth century, including Natsume Sōseki and Miyazawa Kenji. These are their first-ever published English translations. The book is designed to be used as a textbook for the translation of modern Japanese literature—another first. Each chapter introduces the writer and his work, presents the original Japanese text in its entirety, and encourages students with advanced Japanese to make their own translation of it, before reading the author’s translation that follows. The detailed commentary section in each chapter focuses on two stylistic issues that characterise the source text, and how the target text—the translation—has dealt with them, before the chapter concludes with questions for further discussion and analysis.

EXPLORING JAPANESE CULTURE: NOT INSCRUTABLE AFTER ALL

Author : Nicos Rossides
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838593349
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book EXPLORING JAPANESE CULTURE: NOT INSCRUTABLE AFTER ALL written by Nicos Rossides and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Nicos Rossides spent seven unforgettable years in Japan from the late 1970s, when the country began to emerge as a major player on the world stage. From a humbled nation, post-war Japan metamorphosed into an example to admire and emulate. Rossides witnessed this staggering growth and the “lost decade” that followed, only for the country to rebound again as a significant global player. Rossides eventually married into a Japanese family and grew a network of close Japanese friends. In eleven succinct and entertaining essays, the Author exposes the reader to multiple lenses or perspectives on Japanese culture and society. He does this based on what he experienced first-hand and only later digested as a kaleidoscope of different cultural nuances and insights. A fascinating read for those with a sincere interest in Japan and its socio-cultural practices and traditions and, may include students and academics, international businessmen and diplomats and their accompanying families. Written in a breezy style, Dr. Rossides offers his personal vision of how contemporary Japan is changing to address the realities of life in the twenty-first century.

A Handbook of Modern Japan

Author : Ernest W. Clement
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Modern Japan written by Ernest W. Clement and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ernest W. Clement's 'A Handbook of Modern Japan', readers are immersed in a comprehensive exploration of Japan's social, cultural, and political landscape in the modern era. The book's detailed analysis delves into Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a global economic power, highlighting key events and figures that shaped its trajectory. Clement's writing style is academic yet accessible, making complex historical concepts understandable to a wide range of readers. The book is a valuable resource for students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of Japan's place in the world today. Positioned in the context of post-World War II Japan, Clement's work sheds light on the country's unique blend of tradition and innovation, offering insights into its complex societal structures and cultural norms. With meticulous research and insightful analysis, 'A Handbook of Modern Japan' is a must-read for anyone interested in the complexities of contemporary Japanese society and politics.

The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction

Author : Michihiro Ama
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438481438
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction written by Michihiro Ama and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist literature. Its distinctive contribution is its focus on modern literature and, importantly, modern Buddhism, which Michihiro Ama presents both as existing in continuity with the historical Buddhist tradition and as having unique features of its own. Ama corrects the dominant perception in which the Christian practice of confession has been accepted as the primary informing source of modern Japanese prose literature, arguing instead that the practice has always been a part of Shin Buddhist culture. Focusing on personal fiction, this volume explores the works of literary figures and Buddhist priests who, challenged by the modern development of Japan, turned to Buddhism in a variety of ways and used literature as a vehicle for transforming their sense of selfhood. Writers discussed include Natsume Sōseki, Tayama Katai, Shiga Naoya, Kiyozawa Manshi, and Akegarasu Haya. By bringing Buddhism out of the shadows of early twentieth-century Japanese literature and elucidating its presence in both individual authors' lives and the genre of autobiographical fiction, The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction demonstrates a more nuanced understanding of the role of Buddhism in the development of Japanese modernity.

Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature

Author : Rachael Hutchinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134233906
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature written by Rachael Hutchinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in their work. Drawing on methodology from Foucault and Lacan, the clearly presented essays seek to show how Japanese writers have responded to the central question of what it means to be ‘Japanese’ and of how best to define their identity. Taking geographical, racial and ethnic identity as a starting point to explore Japan's vision of 'non-Japan', representations of the Other are examined in terms of the experiences of Japanese authors abroad and in the imaginary lands envisioned by authors in Japan. Using a diverse cross-section of writers and texts as case studies, this edited volume brings together contributions from a number of leading international experts in the field and is written at an accessible level, making it essential reading for those working in Japanese studies, colonialism, identity studies and nationalism.